NYC Restaurants Slash Staff over $15 Minimum Wage


New York City restaurants, feeling the pinch of trying to make ends meet, are slashing their staff after a state law that took effect at the end of 2018 is mandating restaurants with 11 or more workers to pay a $15 an hour minimum wage.

The legal minimum wage in New York City rose from $13 to $15 on December 31, 2018, giving workers a temporary hourly raise while forcing employers to cut those employees’ hours to make ends meet.

The wage hike is the city’s third since December 31, 2016, when the city’s minimum wage rose to $11 an hour.

The latest state-mandated minimum wage increase is being phased in across different parts of the state until 2021 when most of the state’s workers will receive a $15 an hour minimum wage.

Jon Bloostein, the operator of six New York City restaurants with 50 to 110 workers on the payroll at each, said the wage hike is “an immense cost” for his business to shoulder.

“We lost control of our largest controllable expense,” he told CBS News. “So in order to live with that and stay in business, we’re cutting hours.”

Bloostein said he has increased the prices on the restaurant menu and staggered employee start times to cut down on costs.

Previous minimum wage hikes in the city have forced restaurant owners to choose between raising their prices or closing their doors. One East Village restaurant, Angelica Kitchen, had to close after 40 years of being in business because of the increased labor costs.

Even though the city just instituted its $15 an hour minimum wage for most New York City employers, one New York Times columnist proposed that the city raise the minimum wage up to $33 an hour.

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Private Donations Continue to Stream in for Trump Border Wall – 350,000 Donors — And 2/3 Opt In on Private Wall Non-Profit


Private Donations Continue to Stream in for Trump Border Wall – 350,000 Donors — And 2/3 Opt In on Private Wall Non-Profit

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by Jim Hoft
January 20, 2019

Private donations continue to stream in for the “We Build the Wall” non-profit organization.

As of today, almost 350,000 people have donated.

Donations continue to pour in by the minute. Go to Gofundme.com/buildthewall to track how frequently donations are coming in.

Here’s a screenshot from earlier today:

Private donors also continue to opt in on the new project.
Nearly two-thirds of donors have pushed their donation over to the new movement.

Founder Brian Kolfage reported this exciting news on Sunday, “I just received an update from GoFundMe on the status of our campaign and the news is really good. We have received 200,000 responses to opt-in or opt-out of the new plan to BUILD a wall on our southern border. GoFundMe is still working to confirm 40,000 of those, so we estimate that almost 2/3 of the original donors have responded with more than 93% choosing to opt-in.”

Brian says, “We aren’t releasing these numbers publicly because we are still working with GoFundMe to determine the exact figures and amounts but we estimate that the total amount raised from opt-ins is between $8-$11 million and we still have until April 11th to earn the support of the other 1/3 who haven’t yet responded.

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Native Protester Admits They Knew Black Nationalists Were Yelling Racist, Homophobic Slurs at Children When They Confronted Covington Students in ‘Solidarity’ With Them


Native Protester Admits They Knew Black Nationalists Were Yelling Racist, Homophobic Slurs at Children When They Confronted Covington Students in ‘Solidarity’ With Them


by Cassandra Fairbanks
January 20, 2019

One of the Native American protesters who confronted the Covington High School students has admitted that he knew that black nationalists were harassing the kids when they joined them “in solidarity.”

The Native protester, Marcus Frejo, also “liked” a video on YouTube from notorious antisemitic Louis Farrakhan.

In a Facebook post about the incident, Frejo wrote that he was wandering around the area when “all of the sudden this mob of youth from the Covington catholic highschool make there onto the steps overlooking the African American brothers and start heckling them with loud maga chants and I quickly realize whats going on when the white bro next to me says their wearing maga hats and shirts.”

As the Gateway Pundit reported in our interview with students who were present and their parents, a 14-year-old student said that they were simply waiting for their school bus and doing chants when they were confronted.

“We were standing there when a group of four African-American protesters started calling us ‘crackers’ and ‘school shooters,’” the student told TGP. He also explained that they told one of our African-American students — who is one of my friends — that when he gets older we will harvest his organs, which is insane.”

Frejo knew this was happening, as he admits in the post — yet he has the audacity to claim it was the students who were racist.

“When we were singing you could hear the learned bigotry, you could hear the mocking, the laughs, the hate, the racism and as I looked around I thought who taught these kids to hate, who taught them to be this way, who taught them to disrespect an elder in this way,” Frejo wrote.

This is where it gets good, in an update to his post, Frejo acknowledges the homophobic and racist things that the black nationalists, who he repeatedly referred to as his brothers, were saying to the children.

“Even though the hebrew Israelite brothers said some disrespectful things that I heard earlier on during our rally, I still put that aside and wanted to help. Thats their teaching, we have ours and thats what makes us equally beautiful. The only way we can ever get to know eachother is to sit and visit, to eat together, spiritual align and then we become friends. Friends that could uplift eachother in our different beliefs. To sing, to bring that good spirit into a chaotic situation, maybe the world will see and feel that this is yet another teachable moment for all humanity. If the walls of division dont come crumbling down within the hearts of people how can we ever unite. This is a teachable moment for the youth. The earth is talking. The power of those drums. The sun is shining and the sacred mother moon is coming. Cleanse your spirit. Breathe,” Frejo wrote.

So, to sum it up — the Native American protesters were standing with open bigots against children that they thought might possibly be bigots because of their hats. Seems reasonable.

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‘Disarm America Movement’ Gunning for Your Second Amendment Rights


The “Disarm America Movement” is gunning for your Second Amendment rights via increased gun control funding, anti-gun office holders, and aspiring political candidates bent on banning whole categories of firearms.

An NRATV report specifically applies the “Disarm America Movement” moniker to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), as well as the Democrats lining up to win their party’s 2020 nomination. They note that these Democrats perpetuate the “farcical strategies … [like] universal background checks—the newest and shiniest object the Disarm America Movement has brought to the table.”

NRATV notes that “the all-out push for universal background checks displays the anti-gun advocates’ ignorance and skills in public relations, not in practical solutions or in public safety.”

They note that the “Disarm America Movement” is also pushing limits on magazine capacity and waiting periods on gun purchases. At the state level, Oregon Democrats are pushing licensing of gun owners, a 20-round per month purchase limit on ammunition, and a five-round capacity limit on ammo magazines.

On January 8, 2019, Breitbart News reported that House Democrats introduced legislation designed to outlaw private gun sales via universal background checks. Such checks require a gun registry in order to be enforceable and would not have stopped a single mass shooting in America during the 21st century.

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4 Border Activists Convicted Of Entering Refuge, Aiding Illegal Aliens


Leaving water and beans?

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Four women were found guilty by a federal judge Friday of illegally entering a national wildlife refuge near the U.S.-Mexico border to leave food and water for illegal immigrants crossing the Arizona desert.

The women were volunteers with No More Deaths, a group fighting to end deaths of illegal immigrants crossing the sometimes treacherous desert landscapes along the border, according to reports.

Prosecutors said Natalie Hoffman had been driving a vehicle inside the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Arizona on Aug. 13, 2017, and leaving 1-gallon water jugs and cans of beans, reports said.

She was also accused of entering the refuge without a permit. The other three women — Oona Holcomb, Madeline Huse and Zaachila Orozco-McCormick — were with Hoffman when they encountered a U.S. Fish and Wildlife officer inside the refuge.

They were found guilty of entering the area without a permit and abandoning personal property.

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Gary Sinise Raised $1.3 Million For Veterans And First Responders With An Old Jeep


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Actor Gary Sinise raised $1.3 million to help members of the military and first responders by selling a1981 Jeep CJ7…twice.

The custom truck was auctioned at the Barrett-Jackson auction on Friday, with proceeds earmarked for the Gary Sinise Foundation, which runs a variety of programs aimed at entertaining and assisting veterans, active duty military, America’s emergency services and their families.

The red, white and blue Jeep was built by Richard Rawling’s Gas Monkey Garage and initially sold for $200,000, with another partner on the project, heavy equipment broker Sunbelt Rentals, donating an additional $1 million to the organization.

The buyer then sent it across the block again and it sold a second time for $100,000.

“My first car auction, it’s going to be hard to top that,” Sinise told The Arizona Republic. “There were a lot of veterans out there in the audience so I got to acknowledge them and say thank you.”

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Lunatic Leftists Doxed a Random Kid Thinking He Was in the Covington Video — Family Now Receiving Violent Threats

The left has been running around with torches and pitchforks ready to destroy a group of Catholic teens for an awkward response to a leftist protester — and they doxed a random kid in the process.

Now, his family is receiving violent threats — and he wasn’t even there.

Soon after the incident, people began spreading photos of a teen named Michael Hodge — believing that he was Nick Sandmann, the teen who was confronted by the Native American activist. There are hundreds of tweets with his name, photos, and personal information about him and his family.

In their rush for blood, the left attacked this random teen.

On Sunday, the teen’s older bother, Andrew Hodge, took to Twitter to explain what his family has been going through since the mob began attacking them.

“Yesterday was supposed to be a day of celebration for my middle brother Alex, who got married last night. Instead my family had to deal with the fallout of my youngest brother #MichaelHodge being falsely accused for standing & smiling in front of an indigenous man with a drum,” the older brother wrote in the first of a series of tweets.

“People then proceeded to spam my family with harassments and threats of physical violence. We then find out our parents address was posted online. If that wasn’t enough, our family operated business has been slandered and attacked,” he continued.

Hodge complained, rightly, that “no one reviews evidence or does any due diligence, they immediately escalate things to a state of frenzy over much of nothing. The zealots scream for the head of #MichaelHodge knowing that their will be zero consequences to them if anything happens to him.”

He added that his parents, uncles and aunts received messages calling them “pieces of sh-t” and threats warning that they “won’t be able to protect Michael Hodge forever.”

Hodge explained that his little brother is “the best kid I know” and volunteers for the Special Olympics.

The cyberbullies began posting details about his dream of becoming a chef and found the college that he is hoping to attend. The mob then began urging the school to rescind his acceptance, calling him a racist.

“You condemned my parents for being horrible role models, yet you jumped to conclusions and were ready to string up an innocent dude?” Hodge asked.

Hodge finished his statement by urging people to hold themselves to a higher standard and be better.

“We will all be better off for it,” he concluded.

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PURE EVIL: Dems and Far Left Media Dox HIGH SCHOOL BOY in MAGA Hat for Standing Silent as Native American Approaches Him and Beats Drum in his Face!

The same far left media that ran with the junk Buzzfeed report on Friday is now smearing a group of pro-life high school kids in MAGA hats.

On Friday a group of pro-life high school boys who attended the March for Life went to check out the Lincoln Memorial.

While standing at the memorial a group(?) of Native Americans were beating drums at the public memorial.

One man, reportedly a Vietnam veteran, got up in one boy’s face and started screaming and beating his drum.
The video is going viral.

The children were chanting their school song.

The native American man APPROACHED the kids!

Now the fake news media is blaming the children for harassing a Native American.

(Obviously, from the video the reverse is true — but we are talking about the fake news media.)

Now the left is blaming Trump and screaming holy hell at the high school children.

The Native American Nathan Philips said he was upset because he heard children yell build that wall.(?)
(They were chanting their school cheer.)

And now this…

The high school boy was doxxed by the liberal fascist mob.

The boys are from a Catholic HIGH SCHOOL in Kentucky!

Daily Beast doxxed the high school.

He’s a BOY!

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Watch Live: President Donald Trump Makes ‘Major’ Border Crisis Announcement


President Donald Trump will address Americans from the White House on Saturday at 4 p.m. Eastern with a  “major announcement” on the “humanitarian crisis” on the southern border.

The president alerted Americans Friday of the forthcoming announcement:

“Everybody knows by now that our southern border is a humanitarian crisis,” president Trump said in recorded remarks posted later Friday evening. “It’s also a national security crisis.” He called on involved parties to take the politics out of the process and “let’s get to work.”

He spoke of the decades of issues at the border and the many people who want to come into the United States. The president then turned to those who pose a threat, “We have criminals, we have gang members, we have human traffickers, we have drug smugglers, we don’t want them in our country.”

President Trump has said in recent weeks that he has considered declaring a national emergency to secure the southern border, but would rather it be included in a funding bill to reopen the government.

Congressional Democrats were about to leave on a 7-day foreign trip this week while the partial government shutdown continued. The president abruptly canceled the trip before they left the country. The trip would likely have ensured federal workers would miss a second paycheck.

President Trump visited the border on January 11 where he met with law enforcement and toured the area in McAllen, Texas.

“I’m not looking to call a national emergency,” he told reporters Monday. “This is so simple, you shouldn’t have to. Now, I have the absolute legal right to call it, but I’m not looking to do that because this is too simple.” He pointed to Democrat refusal to negotiate border security and barrier funding that would reopen the portion of the federal government shut down.”All they have to do is say, ‘We want border security.’ That automatically means a wall or a barrier.”

Before leaving the White House for Dover Air Force Base Saturday, the president told reporters asking about his afternoon announcement that he would be touching on the caravans coming up from Central America and “Mexico is not stopping them. I mean, Mexico seems unfortunately powerless to stop them.”

“Without a strong border, America is defenseless, vulnerable, and unprotected,” Trump said at the Pentagon Thursday. He added, “We need strong borders. We need strong barriers and walls. Nothing else is going to work. Everyone knows it…This should have been done many years ago.” 

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Republican Lawmaker’s Fantastic State of the Union Plan B Is Sure To Make Pelosi Steam


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Republican Lawmaker’s Fantastic State of the Union Plan B Is Sure To Make Pelosi Steam

Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address Jan. 30, 2018, in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington.Win McNamee / AFP / Getty ImagesDonald Trump delivers the State of the Union address Jan. 30, 2018, in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. (Win McNamee / AFP / Getty Images)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked President Donald Trump to postpone his State of the Union address, pointing to “security concerns” at the Capitol during the government shutdown.

Now a Republican lawmaker has offered the president an alternative venue for the speech.

Pelosi sent a letter to Trump on Wednesday suggesting that he reschedule the annual address.

“Sadly, given the security concerns and unless government re-opens this week, I suggest that we work together to determine another suitable date after government has re-opened for this address or for you to consider delivering your State of the Union address in writing to the Congress on January 29th,” Pelosi wrote.

It’s abundantly clear by now that Pelosi is less concerned about security than she is about Trump criticizing her in front of the entire nation again.

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The California Democrat doesn’t want the president to tell the nation that the government shutdown would end if she and her party were willing to fund a border wall.

But Pelosi might not be able to stop Trump from delivering a State of the Union address.

While it’s become a tradition for the president to deliver the speech in person on the House floor, he is not required to do so.

Trump could easily deliver the speech elsewhere — for example, Raleigh, North Carolina.

On Friday, Republican Tim Moore, the speaker of the North Carolina House, invited Trump to speak there.

“It is my sincere pleasure as the Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives to invite you to deliver your second State of the Union Address in our chamber of this state’s General Assembly,” Moore said in a statement.

It would be a nice symbolic gesture to hold the annual address miles away from the swamp.

Do you think Trump should take him up on his offer?

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The state lawmakers in North Carolina probably would be welcoming than Congress, which features plenty of people who are openly hateful to the president.

Additionally, the unique venue might just bring Trump’s address more attention, which would make Pelosi furious.

It’s unlikely that she will stop the president from speaking on the House floor, but he certainly has other options available.

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